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peacock2121 wrote:

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I was surfing around last night - is Cody the kid that appears to be bi-racial? Was that the question about the age of a senator?

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Yes and yes. If you didn't see the episode when they introduced this new class, Cody also has an identical twin who he auditioned with. They cast Cody instead of his brother.

Obviously because he's so much better, right?

mrkelley23 wrote:Obviously because he's so much better, right?

They didn't say.

I wonder if Cody and his brother have been tempted to play that standard twin trick of switching places and seeing if anyone notices?

I saw 5th Grader last night and was amazed at how dumb the contestants were. The first guy didn't seem to know the difference between the subject and predicate of a sentence! I wonder if they still make kids diagram sentences in English class-I had to from 4th to 10th grades. I know what part of a sentence is what. He also didn't seem to know what a proper noun is (a person's name, a specific place name-like Michigan).

FTR, I wouldn't have gotten the million dollar math question. I probably would have left after seeing the subject-math is NOT my strong point.

I actually thought the second guy would do better until that social studies question came up. I knew the answer to that one.

I wonder what would happen if they found an actual really smart person to put on. Maybe they'd give away the million. And WHY does it take an hour to answer 10 (or usually less) questions? I could do it in 15 minutes!

Kazoo65 wrote: And WHY does it take an hour to answer 10 (or usually less) questions? I could do it in 15 minutes!

It takes an hour because TPTB want to fill up a whole hour with one stack. And you couldn't do it in 15 minutes because Jeff Foxworthy has a whole bag full of tricks to drag it out.

I can't believe that you are still watching that show!

Kazoo65 wrote:I saw 5th Grader last night and was amazed at how dumb the contestants were. The first guy didn't seem to know the difference between the subject and predicate of a sentence! I wonder if they still make kids diagram sentences in English class-I had to from 4th to 10th grades. I know what part of a sentence is what. He also didn't seem to know what a proper noun is (a person's name, a specific place name-like Michigan).

FTR, I wouldn't have gotten the million dollar math question. I probably would have left after seeing the subject-math is NOT my strong point.

I actually thought the second guy would do better until that social studies question came up. I knew the answer to that one.

I wonder what would happen if they found an actual really smart person to put on. Maybe they'd give away the million. And WHY does it take an hour to answer 10 (or usually less) questions? I could do it in 15 minutes!

All in what you know. I found the "million dollar Q" to be ridiculously easy but I hate grammar questions and frequently struggle with them, even on this silly show. Didn't like them way back in the dark ages when I was in school either and apparently have made a dedicated effort to block it all out. I did get the one last night about the subject/proper noun correct but often struggle with those. But I don't recall them ever having what I thought was a truly hard math question though, at any level.

PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote:I can't believe that you are still watching that show!

LOL

Made me laugh.

Could someone please post these million dollar questions here? Thanks!

slam wrote:Could someone please post these million dollar questions here? Thanks!

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Something like:
Of the 10 numbers from 11-20 what proportion are prime numbers.

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I recall they specifically used the word proportion although the cast member answered as a percentage. While they are the same principle they are two different answers. The show didn't seem to much care though as they accepted the answer he gave.

Thanks.

Certainly not the hardest math question I've ever seen.

tanstaafl2 wrote:

slam wrote:Could someone please post these million dollar questions here? Thanks!

Question

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Something like:
Of the 10 numbers from 11-20 what proportion are prime numbers.

Comment

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I recall they specifically used the word proportion although the cast member answered as a percentage. While they are the same principle they are two different answers. The show didn't seem to much care though as they accepted the answer he gave.

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Actually, not to be a pitnicker, but it was "Olivia has 10 cards numbered from 11 to 20. If she picks randomly, what is the probability[/b] that the card will have a prime number?" This is essentially the same, but the wording (and the use of the word "probability") is subtly different.

So his answer of 40% was technically correct.

peacock2121 wrote:

PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote:I can't believe that you are still watching that show!

LOL

Made me laugh.

I know, he does it for us, so that we don't have to watch the show.